I like to wake up a bit before I hear about the latest crisis and I WAS on my way to put the kettle on when I was overtaken and presented with a bank bag containing a piece of tissue that had been used to wipe out the frying pan before it was washed up and then used to lift a 'baby snail' from the face of the kitchen cupboard !
"There's a baby snail in that tissue !" I was informed !
The top of the bank bag had been turned over in the way that bank bags mystifyingly can be, sealing in the creature !
"I don't know HOW it got there unless you walked it in on your outdoor shoes when you swept up the garden leaves two days ago !"
Of course I take my outdoor shoes off at the door when I come in so carrying a baby snail in on them seemed a bit improbable but then woodlice can suddenly appear trudging across the middle of the lounge carpet and our floors are concrete so there's another mystery !
I made my coffee and sat down to investigate, gingerly opening the sealed up bag !
"It was 5am and dark when I came down for a cup of tea when I woke for the sixteenth time after NOT sleeping barely a wink for the seven thousandth night in a row so it might not actually be a snail but if it is you're going to have to do something about it !"
I wondered which expert I would have to call in to repel an invasion of baby snails as I opened up the tissue revealing a small dried out coffee granule which was possibly once a splash !
"It's a splash !" I said confidently and slightly relieved !
"But what if it hadn't been, what would you have done about it ?"
That we'll never know !
